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Teams Meeting Recordings Retention Policy: Bypass Recycle Bin?
Our information governance team is keen to have the 60-day teams meeting recordings (TMRs) retention policy work in such a way that it deletes the TMR after 60 days and it is a hard delete, instead o...
Yes, but you have to use retention deletion with Purview https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/meetings-policies-recording-and-transcription#compliance
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/compliance/apply-retention-labels-automatically?view=o365-worldwide#microsoft-teams-meeting-recordings
This is a proper guide https://office365itpros.com/2021/06/22/teams-meeting-recordings-auto-label/
I ended up working with Microsoft on this and they explained that I cannot use a Purview retention policy to remove particular file types. In this case we are wanting to remove teams meeting recordings (or mp4s) in particular. There's not a way to create a policy that targets only those file types for removal after x number of days. They didn't see an alternative solution, either.
They are wrong. Read the article and the docs links.